A driver, who was with the 17 soldiers killed at Okuama spoke of how he escaped and hiw the deceased were mauled by the militant youths.
He said they were killed when they could not return fire because of alleged powerful incantations by the killers’ priestess and priest.
Speaking with newsmen he said the Commander of the Joint Task Force in Bomadi, Major Saffa was the first to go to Okuama, with his men, on March 14, to rescue a former supervisory councilor’s brother, Anthony Aboh, who was reportedly Kidnapped by the Okuama youths on March, 13.
He said Saffa who went to Okuama on a peace mission with his junior colleagues were held hostage, albeit, as a result of his insistence that he must take the chairperson of the community and others with him.
As a result of the development, the Commanding Officer of the 181 Amphibious Battalion, Lt. Col. A.H. Ali,decided on a backup team and led his men on the same peace mission to rescue rescue Saffa and his team who were held hostage, But things turned otherwise were ambushed and killed when they got there.
The driver who managed to escape with some soldiers alleged that “when the armed youths came out of their hideout after the peace talks in the community hall collapsed and the the soldiers were forcing the community chairman to the waterfront to board their boats, the youths signaled the community chairman to stoop and lie low on the ground.”
He pointed out that the Commander and his men did not notice the militants’ signal during which which the incantations by their juju priestess and priest were being invoked.
He continued that it was after the chairman laid down that the shooting started. “The soldiers could not return fire because of the powerful incantations.”
Additional details from Vanguard.
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